WELLINGTON TOPICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1921, Page 1

WELLINGTON TOPICS.

WAX'! OF COXFIDKXCE. THK RIVAL LEADERS. (Qur Special Con'Bspondcnt). WIvLLLXGTOX. September 20. Of course every party leader is entitled to his own views in respect to tact'".* and within certain limits, to a fee hand in their application. But it is just, a little difficult to understand why at, this partii inir stage of the session Air T. AL U’ilford, the leader of the l.ilwtwl Opposition, and Air Holland the leader of the Official Labour Party, should assail the Government with 'iineinlmcnts to tlm Address-in-Reply whe-h much be regarded as motions of waat of emilidenre. The text of Air W’ilfoi'd’s aiuemlmunt lias not yet treen anuoiemI ed. but it is fair to assume that wh-u , it is submitted to tbe House it " ill be found to traverse tlm policy and administration ol tlm Government in *ir'h a way that the Refnrm leader will In". •■ no alternative to ajeepting it a.- a li'ud- 1 huge to a trial of strength .Mr Holland’s amendment lias been flamed and i- .b'linite and explicit. It holds tlm ( M.veriiment re -poll- ihie for all the dl- - have befallen the country since it took office and -imgest- tlm country i- tired to the length of disgust an 1 imlign :tion with its long loutinned nmledmiHistrat ion. ife \TjN'ti i'l IF. AIR. Ail t!.i- may be within the rules ami ethics if Hi paitv game, but the futiity of two sections of the House, hitt, r'y opp '-ed to one another and lmiPmr eoenl ng as many as a dozen ndherents, liuiTing imj I'aehmeiits at a Government u ha.- e s’ipj. ortei s outnumber theirs by at | ui.si two to one i- obvious to every,,r ■ ■■ able of sun tiling up the facts ■•)

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